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Cognitive psychotherapy: what happens when the therapeutic relationship breaks down?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Noreen Bannan  and
Kevin M Malone
Noreen Bannan
Affiliation:
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Ireland
Kevin M Malone
Affiliation:
Department of Adult Psychiatry, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Ireland
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Abstract

Behavioural and interpersonal difficulties arising during the course of cognitive psychotherapy are common and they provide unique opportunities to assess and modify patients' beliefs and assumptions. A breakdown in the therapeutic relationship may be on a continuum from a simple misunderstanding to a more chronic and complex problem. It may act as a potent vehicle for change in the patient, but may also precipitate change in the therapist who is also part of that relationship which can influence treatment outcome.

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Cognitive psychotherapyTherapeutic relationship

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Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 92 - 95
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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